Thing is, it really doesn't matter what it has to do with. He joined voluntarily and he's been taking the pay and benefits. Now when it's his turn to fulfill his part of the agreement, he's refusing.
Military courts are infamous for not giving a damn why without some unusal, mitigating circumstances. Clearly, his personal opinion does not fall under that category.
The fact is he refused to obey a lawful order, and then, speaking as a member of the US military made political statements to the media. The jury of his "peers" will consist of mostly those who have already done at least one tour, so I'm not seeing his getting the sympathy vote.
What I meant to say in my previous post is that I can respect the fact that right or wrong, he is standing accountable for his actions, an almost extinct trait in this country.
I don't respect his decision nor his reasoning for making it, and could care less what his reasoning. I'd vote to max him out.
I'm not sure about the charges. In the Corps, you get one count for each time you refuse to obey the order. I'm sure he refused to obey it more than once before charges were preferred. I'd be willing to be the CoC tried to talk him into doing what he was ordered to do more than once. That would be two years for each count, not two years total, in addition to the four years for the political statement.
Ten years for being a nimrod would work for me.